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List:       aix-l
Subject:    Re: ssh and /var/adm/wtmp
From:       "Sandor W. Sklar" <ssklar () STANFORD ! EDU>
Date:       2002-03-30 19:06:24
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At 10:14 AM +0000 3/28/02, Williamson, Alan wrote:
>All,
>
>We have installed Secure Shell on some of our servers. (ssh.com) and now
>seem to have a problem where by /var/adm/wtmp is getting very large and
>keeps filling up var, causing problems.

I haven't seen that problem (we use OpenSSH extensively), but it
would be simple enough to write a little routine using the fwtmp(1)
command to dump the /var/adm/wtmp file to ascii, truncate the ascii
version, and then convert it back to binary.

--Sandy
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   Sandor W. Sklar  -  Unix Systems Administrator  -  Stanford University ITSS
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